1. 05 Aug, 2010 1 commit
    • Arnd Bergmann's avatar
      drm: kill BKL from common code · 58374713
      Arnd Bergmann authored
      This restricts the use of the big kernel lock to the i830 and i810
      device drivers. The three remaining users in common code (open, ioctl
      and release) get converted to a new mutex, the drm_global_mutex,
      making the locking stricter than the big kernel lock.
      
      This may have a performance impact, but only in those cases that
      currently don't use DRM_UNLOCKED flag in the ioctl list and would
      benefit from that anyway.
      
      The reason why i810 and i830 cannot use drm_global_mutex in their
      mmap functions is a lock-order inversion problem between the current
      use of the BKL and mmap_sem in these drivers. Since the BKL has
      release-on-sleep semantics, it's harmless but it would cause trouble
      if we replace the BKL with a mutex.
      
      Instead, these drivers get their own ioctl wrappers that take the
      BKL around every ioctl call and then set their own handlers as
      DRM_UNLOCKED.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
      Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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